.TH update\-cracklib 8 "June 09, 2003" "Martin Pitt" .SH NAME update\-cracklib \- Regenerate cracklib dictionary .SH SYNOPSIS .B update\-cracklib .br .SH DESCRIPTION .B update\-cracklib builds a compressed and accumulated version of wordlists stored in the directories given in cracklib's configuration file /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf. Programs using cracklib2 need this database to be of any use. .PP By default this script is called by cron every day. .SH RESULT .B update\-cracklib prints out two numbers: the number of words read from the ASCII dictionaries and the number of words eventually written into the cracklib database; if no error occurred, these should be equal. .PP 0 is returned on success, otherwise an error message is printed to standard error and \-1 is returned. .SH FILES .TP .B /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf shell script that sets .B cracklib_dictpath_src which must be a space separated list of source dictionary files. .SH SEE ALSO .BR cracklib (3), .BR crack_mkdict (8) .SH AUTHOR This program and manual page was written by Martin Pitt for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may be used by others).